Courts

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund has filed a lawsuit on behalf of La Union Benefica Mexicana, a nonprofit
organization in East Chicago, protesting two previously unchallenged portions of Indiana’s new immigration law.

While Indiana statute doesn’t specifically define the word “turning” in the context of traffic law, the
7th Circuit Court of Appeals has held the failure to use a right-hand turn signal at an intersection amounts to a violation
and justifies a traffic stop.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has held that a post-conviction court isn’t required to accept any proffered agreement
from a defendant because that type of proceeding isn’t the same as a civil hearing and the Indiana Supreme Court has
given local judges final authority in accepting or denying agreements.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has held that two siblings who have accused their mother of fraud with regard to a family trust
account did not present any material issue of fact to support their argument.

A mental health services provider doesn’t have standing to challenge a nonprofit competitor’s subcontract for
similar services with the Indiana Department of Administration, the state’s second highest appellate court has ruled.

The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld a Department of Workforce Development decision denying a woman her claim for unemployment
insurance benefits after she was terminated for being unable to perform the required skills of her job.

The Full Worker’s Compensation Board of Indiana was correct in ordering a business to pay for an employee’s third
surgery that resulted from an accident partially caused by a previous work-related injury.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated the direct appeal of a LaPorte County man convicted of felony robbery and attempted
robbery in 2004, finding that he should not receive a new trial for receiving ineffective assistance of appellate counsel
the first time he tried to challenge his convictions and sentence.

The Indiana Supreme Court has held the state can continue enforcing a ban on automated robo-calls, with four justices finding
that enforcement does not violate the Indiana Constitution’s free speech rights.

A woman who filed a belated wrongful death suit as personal representative for her son’s estate is bound by the two-year
statute of limitations, regardless of the fact that her grandchild has a disability.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has ordered a trial court to use the proper legal standard to determine whether a woman violated
her probation when she was arrested for theft. The trial court used a probable cause standard instead of the legal standard
of a preponderance of evidence.

A Marion County judge violated a defendant’s right to due process when it allowed the charge of resisting law enforcement
to go to trial even though the defendant showed purposeful discrimination by the prosecution during voir dire, the Indiana
Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed ex-East Chicago Mayor George Pabey’s convictions of embezzling government
funds and conspiring to embezzle and found the District Court didn’t err when it sentenced him to 60 months in prison.

The Indiana Tax Court ruled that a government agency incorrectly calculated a Marion County school district’s capital
project fund levy property tax rate for 2011, and it has ordered the Department of Local Government Finance to recalculate
the tax rates going back to 2007.